Ian S
@csteach.uk
Principal Teacher of Computing & Digital Learning | Substack Author | Ex-Google for Education Champion | #VIA20 | #EdTech50 | #Edpuzzle Ambassador | Views my own, posts ephemeral
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 20+21/2026: Recovery Time (or finally learning something the Italians tried to teach me a decade ago) open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 20+21/2026: Recovery Time
Finally learning something the Italians tried to teach me a decade ago
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SEL doesn't have to be a separate focus or solely part of PSHE. Sometimes it is already embedded in your classroom! When students 🟢🟡🔴 their own understanding and choose which @edpuzzle.com recap video to watch next, they're practising self-awareness and self-management. Good teaching IS good SEL.
With exams approaching, I used Edpuzzle Slides to turn past paper questions into interactive tasks. No printing and instant feedback using Live Mode! I could also see exactly who was engaging. So simple to set up. It's well worth exploring if you haven't already! 🎯 @edpuzzle.com
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 12+13/2026: We build castles with our baggage open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 12+13/2026: We build castles with our baggage
Week 12 began with illness.
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 10+11/2026: Ozymandias (After Shelley) open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 8+9/2026: For God's Sake, Take The Stairs! open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 6/2026: The work of becoming unnecessary. Capacity ✅, resilience ✅. Now the freedom to ride off into the sunset?
As we're getting into that last term before the GCSE exam, I'm making our programming tasks simpler and reminding students about the programming revision booklet I made - it's aimed at OCR, but I'm sure you could tweak it for other boards. #TeamCompSci www.advanced-ict.info/examples/Pyt...
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 5/2026: Growing pains that need new pathways. Learning that some spaces you have to build yourself open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 4/2026: Spaces That Hold. Quiet work and long echoes open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 3/2026: Kinder, Clearer Information. Deciding what information earns its place open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent: Weeknote 2/2026 - Kinder, Clearer Systems. Leadership lessons from snow drifts, death cleaning, and deliberate networking csteach.substack.com/p/weeknote-2...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 49+50/2025: Exploring and applying Schwartz's Values Wheel open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Make a Test by Alice Keeler lets you turn a Google Doc into a Google Form quiz by pulling your questions straight from the doc and creating the form for you so test building feels much faster. 🔗 workspace.google.com/marketplace/... #EduSky #GoogleEDU #GoogleWorkspace
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making
When work and weather derail your journey
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Really interesting to see @metoffice.gov.uk starting to quantify and boundary some of their forecast probabilities, and how they are showing that graphically for reports (www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...). Love the depth of information, and the clarity of the explanation - really interesting!
If you dig back in this blog you will see that one way or another I have been blogging since the turn of the century. It's never without its challenges but for me it is a key part of open practice. It is a positive way of moving things forward. There was a sudden... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n3a
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 39+40/2025: I would have gotten away with it too open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
